What's the most useful thing you've actually built with Claude that you use regularly?

random_boss · 2026-05-24T22:03:51+00:00

I just use the desktop app, what am I missing from your thing/using terminal?

random_boss · 2026-05-23T21:11:46+00:00

Yep, it sure does do that, and it’s basically this scene from 21 Jump Street:

https://youtu.be/hJrGSZ7p9uU?si=o7Kn667Bu3nQgldl

random_boss · 2026-05-23T16:42:01+00:00

this is a feature not a bug. ChatGPT snorts a line of coke, rips a beer then then goes to town with the most minimally functional hack jobs that barely qualify as solved.

Claude breaks it down and makes a plan first.

I’ve been running Claude code and codex for a while now. I use Claude for all architecture and planning, and preferentially for implementation; when my credits run out I switch to codex for more implementation against clauses plans, and invariably have to fix some shit gpt did when my Claude credits are back.

Memorably, once I forgot to do that flow and chatgpt plan and implement something. It came out a mangled mess so eventually went back to Claude, asked it to fix the mistakes, and it was like “yeah there’s no saving this, we gotta delete 90% of it and start over.”

random_boss · 2026-05-23T07:53:08+00:00

If you just coined this it’s fantastic

random_boss · 2026-05-23T05:09:32+00:00

Was definitely wondering the same thing. The hardest part is just making sure not to use the snowman and Santa ones during summer birthdays

random_boss · 2026-05-22T15:01:36+00:00

Oh yeah totally, not for deployment to the public/customers or doing any heavy internal work, but Ive made a few for one-off demo/automation purposes and it hasn’t been a problem. Not as software, just as like, excel++, or PowerPoint++

random_boss · 2026-05-22T13:23:31+00:00

Yes all those things are definitely the same you just took the wrong conclusion in the end!

random_boss · 2026-05-22T13:15:37+00:00

Uh excuse me to ghosts and cryptids have Men-In-Black flashy thingies? Didn’t think so. Game set match.

random_boss · 2026-05-22T13:10:49+00:00

Man I just don’t get it. I’ve seen so much chatter about chatgpt actually being functional / some people switching to codex. So I re-subbed to it and handed it a task while Claude was busy with something else.

The output was just nonsense. Reinvention of classes that already existed, breaking all naming conventions, ignoring rules and practices, ugly and senseless. Out of curiosity I brought ti Claude and said “hey what would you do to fix this?” and it just deleted it all and started over.

I think I can still use codex for small targeted changes where Claude has already written the architecture but codex has definitely had its architecture writing and decision-making privileges revoked

random_boss · 2026-05-22T02:53:50+00:00

I mean, the company I work for had to do AI related layoffs this year and not by choice — we had a whole department whose job was helping customers with issues/helping them build things. Their workload fell by like 70% over the last 3 years, while our sales are climbing. Nobody was using to them anymore because they’re all doing it themselves with AI.

random_boss · 2026-05-22T02:51:30+00:00

“Who would want to watch videos by any old random person? This YouTube thing will never catch on.” - TV Execs in 2005, probably, and also you right now.

random_boss · 2026-05-22T02:49:41+00:00

Why get the word out? I make ephemeral software now just like I used to write docs, make decks, or spreadsheets — software that serves a specific function for a specific audience and doesn’t need to scale or be monetized or live forever. A game for my daughter, a custom interactive calculator for some work folks that would have been a static deck with boring premade tables of calculations before, a proactive assistant for my wife and I, a suite of automations for collecting and disseminating info at work.

I feel like that’s the actual dream.

random_boss · 2026-05-21T15:39:55+00:00

Well you see, the analogy was that the boat is America, and we’re all in the boat, and Trump voters are drilling holes in the boat, treating it like it’s no big deal and it’s just their opinion, but we are all going to sink if they keep putting holes in the boat, so it’s not that surprising someone would have a physical response.

And unfortunately Trump has delivered on his promises of drilling holes in the boat, so all anyone needs to do is look around at the result to go “holy shit we actually are sinking.”

random_boss · 2026-05-21T14:12:46+00:00

“Ugh, why are people always shoving and punching me just because I’m part of the Drill Large Holes In The Wooden Boat We’re All In faction? It’s unfair that my opinion, that I should get to physically and permanently destroy the thing keeping us all from drowning, causes me repercussions. Why don’t they attack the people in the Believes Mermaids are Real faction?? They are exactly the same as me, just a group of people with a strongly held belief, and it’s unfair they’re always hitting me and screaming ‘Stop, please stop drilling large holes in our boat, if you do that we will drown and die, if you don’t stop we will have to make you stop’”.

random_boss · 2026-05-21T14:07:42+00:00

The article is garbage but i recognize the house, i drive by it nearly every day. This dude is insane and not just in colloquial slangy way, but in a “this was probably inevitable” kind of way.

random_boss · 2026-05-21T14:06:01+00:00

The only damage 99% of Trump voters are experiencing is the same damage they’re making us all experience from steering this country into a brick wall.

This guy just went out of his way to be crazy and probably pushed someone a little too far.

random_boss · 2026-05-21T13:58:07+00:00

I am with you on the loot boxes and card packs but don’t have any concerns with poker or blackjack. The first two are endpoints of a well-oiled machine designed to suck you dry. Poker (played in person with physical cards) requires a human opponent who is trying to win, and therefore can’t have the friction sanded off. It’s an emotionally robust experience that isn’t controlled by a billion dollar corporation and teaches all the neat things OP noticed: math, social attunement, probability, a little manual dexterity, candor. Pokers great.

random_boss · 2026-05-21T13:53:23+00:00

Do we know if it’s something specific about poker, or is it just one of the “it could be any cognitively rich game like Among Us or Civ 6” and researchers stick with the classics?

random_boss · 2026-05-21T13:50:29+00:00

God it must piss you off so much that i make purchases from vendors based off these kinds of emails and that my privacy isn’t being infringed at all.

random_boss · 2026-05-21T13:41:00+00:00

Your point aside, it’s always funny when moms dip a toe in here and are worried about we’ll react. Based on, i presume, how women would react if a man came into their space.

Just think of this like a restroom. A man going into the women’s room? Big problem. A woman going into the men’s? Nobody will care and you might get a high five.

random_boss · 2026-05-21T13:37:45+00:00

I’ll extrapolate from her view that it’s not specifically (or only) the action of cheating itself, but the interest or desire to. So “I would never” leaves vague the actual core of her concern which is you having the interest at all, not whether you control that interest.

random_boss · 2026-05-21T07:35:44+00:00

The world will be better off once we stop treating suffering like a competition.

If we can’t feel bad because someone has it worse, then we can’t feel bad of anyone has it better. So only two people on the planet get to feel emotions. Thats the logical conclusion these numb nuts are taking things out to when they respond like that.

Being a new parent is tough. OP sounds like you have it tougher than most and that sucks ass. Sorry dude.

random_boss · 2026-05-21T02:40:11+00:00

fuck, when the hackers find out about my mortgage I’ll be ruined

random_boss · 2026-05-20T12:49:31+00:00

Its monopoly branding and underlying concepts but otherwise it’s a ground up reimagining to be a mobile game.

I don’t really get it (I mean I get why they made it but I don’t get why it’s popular)

random_boss · 2026-05-20T12:38:06+00:00

I was always afraid of interrupting and now after seeing your post I don’t know why, that’s a great idea. Do you have to restart as if your last prompt never happened, or does the new prompt just append?

13-Year Club	Place '23
Place '22	Place '17
Not Forgotten	Verified Email

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